Yes, you can find me on Twitter: @smalltalk80
I love Twitter as a way of exchanging ideas but it sucks as a persistence mechanism. Here are tweets that I want to keep around for more than one week (Twitters search limit):
Aphorisms
If you aim for the moon you will probably be incinerated on the launch pad.
Oxymoron advertising: Toyota’s Prius commercial in Norway says “A hybrid built without compromises”.
The hardest part about killing your darlings is not doing it but learning to love doing it.
“Have you seen a talking cow?” “No…” “Well, then you are definitely not an authority on talking cows”
I don´t believe in conspiracy theories but I do believe in networks of incompetence.
Twitter is a great place to share new ideas and inane flight information.
Children
Inane children’s TV asks “do you want to hear this story?”. 5 yo answers: “only if it´s not boring”
My daughter started crying when her brother shoved her. The weird thing is that it was a virtual shove inside a computer game…
Philosophy from a 4 year old: When I grow up I am going to be Gave Over
My daugter woke me at 2 am this morning. When I came to her room she asked me “What are you doing?” I replied: “Trying to sleep”
Software
Domain experience is overrated. Its much easier for a good consultancy to learn a domain than it is for a bad one to learn good practices.
I wonder if the real driver for cloud computing will be that you can make customers pay for software without giving them a copy?
Twitter is like RSS with brains
The real cause of bot nets is that there is an underpriced resource (unused CPU cycles). A market needs to be created.
The http://www.semat.org initiative begets the question: Do we want software to be built using engineering or craftmanship?
A good craftsman basis his craft on science.
Maybe I’m the last one to figure this out: After Web2.0 comes the augmented reality web and it’s already here.
In computing we are so used to change that we are impressed when an idea is still valid after 25 years.
Inventing a new programming language is a sure sign of impending crisis: Sun -> Java, Microsoft -> C#, Google -> Go
In 100 years most of today’s computing problems will be gone, except for latency and time zones.
User testing can be used in surprising ways. I just used it to figure out in which drawer my cutlery should be in.
Alan Coopers presentation http://www.cooper.com/journ… is a fascinating combination of profound insights and bullshit.
Agile and lean
I hate it when people say that agile and lean are intuitive. The best parts of both are counterintuitive.
In 1990 Adele Goldberg said “in ten years objects will be boring”. Same thing will happen with agile.
Combining Seddon with agile: Inspect and adapt in Scrum is one step too late. One should inspect problem first, then choose approach
Climate
Climate skeptics seem to believe that rising ocean levels pose no threat as long as the cause is natural.
Regardless of which side is eventually proved right in the climate debate, the debate illustrates the severe limits of human reasoning
#Geoengineering. We are already flying the plane. Too bad we didn’t learn to fly first…
Whatever
Ray Kurzweil says we will be immortal in 20 years: http://tinyurl.com/l7cnxw Is it a coincidence that he is 61 and prob. hopes to live then?
Cosmologists understand almost everything about the universe, with the exception of about 96% of the matter and energy in it…
Throwing out old books is a process of coming to terms with my self deceptions. I have been planning to read some of them for decades.
Its much smarter to lie about the past than the near future. If you lie about the future time will catch you. The past cant be proven…
Just saw a twitter message in Japanese and realize that they can get a lot more said in 140 characters…
The Norwegian workers party has the slogan: everyone should have a secure job. Sounds nice until you ponder the implications…
New research refutes the belief that a naked man looses 50% of his heat through the head, but who would walk naked in winter?
Going out fully clothed in winter but without head wear is common. Maybe putting something on your head will reduce heat loss by 50%.
To be relevant science needs to ask the right questions.Proving that a naked person does not loose 50% through the head isn´t a good question
“All problems go away in time, even the fear of death” Garrison Keillor